3 9 2 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



but subequal and the cortina is white." In C. bolaris no violet is 

 present in the voung plant. The flesh of the cap is thin. 



The above is adapted from the descriptions of Fries, especially 

 from that in the Icones, where elegant figures are to be found. 

 Peck has reported it from New York and it is desirable to get data 

 of its distribution in America. It seems to be very rare. The size 

 of the spores is not agreed upon by European writers. Kicken says 

 they are 6 x 5 micr., while Saccardo and Stevenson give them 

 8-9 x 7-8 micr. One collection from Sault Ste. Marie seems to belong 

 here but the reddish color was not nearly as intense as in Fries' 

 figure. 



Section II. Universal veil obsolete or lacking. 



*GUls at first whitish or pallid, or tinged slightly with violaceous 



or grayish. 



394. Cortinarius subtabularis sp. nov. 



1* ILEUS 2-6 cm. broad, campanulate-convex at first, then plane or 

 obsoletely nmbonate, discoid, dry, caesious or violaceous drab to sil- 

 very-fuscous, silky-shining with white silky fibrils, even. FLESH 

 thin, soon pallid. GILLS adnate then sinuate, rather broad, close 

 but distinct, ventricose, at first pallid with obscure violaceous tints, 

 at length cinnamon, never truly violet or purplish, edge entire. 

 STEM 3-5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, equal except a slight, subabrupt, 

 bulbillate base, apex slightly scurfy, pale violaceous-drab, color per- 

 sistent, silky-fibrillose and shining, sometimes marked at the base 

 by the remnants of the white CORTINA, stuffed, hollowed by larvae, 

 usually strict, later flexuous or curved. SPORES elliptical, scarcely 

 rough, 9-10 x 5 micr. BASIDIA 30 x 7 micr. ODOR none or slight. 

 TASTE mild. 



Scattered or gregarious. On the ground among or under fallen 

 leaves of oak and maple woods. Ann Arbor. October-November. 

 Frequent locally. 



Characterized by the peculiar, small, abrupt bulblet of the stem 

 and the "erythrinus" or subviolaceous color when fresh. The cap 

 nil en becomes a little darker or stained in age, while the color of 

 the stem is more apt to persist. It has the stature of an Inocybe. 

 The young gills are scarcely of the "violet" type. It seems to ap- 

 proach ('. tabularis Fr. and its size and the nature of the cap are 



